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Guo, Ying; Puranik, Cynthia; Kelcey, Ben; Sun, Jing; Dinnesen, Megan Schneider; Breit-Smith, Allison – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Home literacy practices are an important variable in the development of literacy skills among children. However, several questions regarding the relationship between home literacy practices and writing are unanswered. The objective of this correlational study is to examine the relationship between reading-related and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Family Literacy, Family Environment, Literacy Education
Guo, Ying; Puranik, Cynthia; Kelcey, Ben; Sun, Jing; Schneider Dinnesen, Megan; Breit-Smith, Allison – Grantee Submission, 2020
Research Findings: Home literacy practices are an important variable in the development of literacy skills among children. However, several questions regarding the relationship between home literacy practices and writing are unanswered. The objective of this correlational study is to examine the relationship between reading-related and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Family Literacy, Family Environment, Literacy Education
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Segal, Aviva; Howe, Nina; Persram, Ryan J.; Martin-Chang, Sandra; Ross, Hildy – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
Research on the home literacy environment has typically involved parents as teachers with little attention given to siblings' roles in teaching each other. This study examines naturalistic language and literacy teaching by 39 sibling dyads, at two timepoints, when children were ages 2 and 4 (time 1; T1) and again at ages 4 and 6 (time 2; T2). Each…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Sibling Relationship, Language Acquisition
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Snow, Pamela C. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2021
Reading ability is profoundly important, for individuals and for the societies of which they are a part. Research indicates that we should be successfully teaching 95% of children to read, yet, in reality, high rates of reading failure are common in western, industrialized nations. In large part, this reflects a failure to translate into practice…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Oral Language, Reading Failure
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Inoue, Tomohiro; Georgiou, George K.; Muroya, Naoko; Maekawa, Hisao; Parrila, Rauno – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
We examined the cross-lagged relations between the home literacy environment and literacy skills in Japanese, and whether child's gender, parents' education and child's level of literacy performance moderate the relations. One hundred forty-two Japanese children were followed from Grades 1 to 2 and assessed on character knowledge, reading fluency…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Literacy, Japanese, Elementary School Students
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Puglisi, Marina L.; Hulme, Charles; Hamilton, Lorna G.; Snowling, Margaret J. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
The home literacy environment is a well-established predictor of children's language and literacy development. We investigated whether formal, informal, and indirect measures of the home literacy environment predict children's reading and language skills once maternal language abilities are taken into account. Data come from a longitudinal study…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Genetics, Language Skills